Keep a mood diary to help cope with anxiety

Our brains are fascinating organs and each one is completely unique. Whilst we all see the world in a unique way, we all have a brain that reacts the same way to differing stimuli. Recognising which stimuli create a reaction in our brain and the process neural pathway that gets triggered is one of the keys to controlling our anxiety.

One of the things that can help is to start keeping a mood diary. Pick five points during the day (Waking, break, lunch, arriving home and bed). At each of these points scale your anxiety. For children, you can help them scale their anxiety out of 10. Patterns will emerge that will show you at what times you are the most anxious. From this, you can work out what is triggering this anxiety and put strategies in place to reduce it's impact. This could be something simple like, meditate for 10 minutes whilst still lying in bed if you discover that your anxiety is particularly high in the mornings and so on.

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